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Administrators manage and maintain specific enterprise platforms or subsystems, ensuring performance, security, and compliance. Responsibilities often include configuration, access management, backup and recovery, and system optimization. They work closely with application teams, security, and auditors to keep systems reliable and governed. Successful administrators are detail-oriented, dependable, and trusted to own critical infrastructure components.
The role may have different names depending on geography and domain. Some of the most common name variations of the Administrator role in the Mainframe and COBOL space are Administrator, System Administrator, Database Administrator, Middleware Administrator, Platform Administrator.
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Based on 24 job listings, the average salary for a Administrator in the Mainframe space is $121,507 in 2026.
These are the top skills employers on Backbone Jobs are looking for when hiring Administrators: Mainframe, z/OS, DB2, COBOL.
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